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Business and attorney advocacy groups urged the D.C. Circuit to deny the Federal Trade Commission’s bid to force Boehringer Ingelheim to give up documents from a 2008 Aggrenox patent dispute, saying Friday that communications from the pharmaceutical ...read more

Overstock.com has lost a challenge of a $6.8 million penalty for showing customers phony prices to dupe them into thinking they were getting a good deal, with a California appellate panel ruling in a partially published opinion Friday that the judgment ...read more

The Union of Concerned Scientists on Monday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump's executive order mandating that executive agencies eliminate two regulations for every new one, saying the order is invalid ...read more

The National Congress of American Indians and the Native American Rights Fund on Friday said that they remain committed to representing and advancing Native peoples’ interests in implementing the Paris climate change agreement, despite President ...read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a request by a Teamsters local to revisit a 1980 ruling blocking unions from picketing that discourages the public from patronizing a company because of a business relationship with another company in light of the ...read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a case that questions whether the government needs a warrant to access a person’s cell phone location history, after the Sixth Circuit in April 2016 ruled that the location data did not fall entirely ...read more

Courts have historically set a high threshold for finding directors and officers personally liable for breaches of fiduciary duties. However, the standards with respect to director and officer liability for damages resulting from cyberattacks are evolving ...read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's religious exemption provision to benefit plans maintained by church affiliates, regardless of whether an actual church established the plan, handing a win to hospitals ...read more

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held Monday that disgorgement collected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is subject to the five-year statute of limitations on civil penalties, resolving a circuit split and reducing a New Mexico investment ...read more

Members of Congress return to Washington, D.C., this week for a four-week work period before the Fourth of July recess. Many of the same issues that absorbed their attention during the first five months of the year will continue to dominate the June agenda ...read more

Clients haven’t given up on tax reform yet, but after a week of vague statements about what exactly the administration wants out of it, they are holding off major decisions until they can see what elements of tax reform get through Congress, experts ...read more

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s TC Heartland decision narrowing where infringement lawsuits can be filed, attorneys say patent owners may now have to spread their enforcement efforts over multiple venues with less experienced judges, a more expensive ...read more

President Donald Trump qualified his announcement that the United States will pull out of the Paris climate accord by expressing a willingness to seek a renegotiated deal or even forge a brand new one, but experts say there's no clear path to reworking ...read more

As more states and local governments embrace “ban the box” laws preventing employers from asking up front about a job applicant’s criminal history, businesses that operate in multiple locales need to know how to handle a variety of requirements ...read more

A group of states on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Second Circuit's September decision for American Express Co. in an antitrust suit over the company’s merchant rules, but the U.S. Department of Justice declined to join the ...read more

The Second Circuit on Friday reversed and remanded a trial court’s decision to toss a putative class action alleging that Whole Foods overcharged for underweight prepackaged foods, finding that the district court erred when it found that the shopper ...read more

A pair of discount variety retail chains rang up full-price lawsuits against each other Thursday in separate Delaware courts, with the Dollar Tree-Family Dollar chain accused in one case of an elaborate plot to “kill Dollar Express.” ...read more

In Law360's latest roundup of new actions at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Chipotle continues to spar with a small burger chain over "Tasty," another big battle brews over "Houston," and the World Wildlife Fund takes on ...read more

The number of women leading Fortune 500 legal departments is higher than ever while companies increasingly select candidates from the corporate sphere to fill general counsel roles instead of turning to law firms, a new report released Friday found. ...read more

Uber has agreed to settle for $32.5 million a California federal class action alleging it misled consumers about its so-called safe rides fee and the quality of its driver background checks, sweetening the pot after the court rejected an earlier $28.5 ...read more

After declining to recommit to the Paris climate change agreement at last week’s G-7 summit, it came as little surprise that President Donald Trump announced the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Attorneys with Arnold & Porter Kaye ...read more

Much like other types of investigations, a workplace investigation can unearth all kinds of unexpected information. However, the rules aren’t always clear as to what the investigator is supposed to do with the information when the case takes an unanticipated ...read more

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent TC Heartland decision on determining venues for patent cases may prompt an annual drop of 1,000 cases in the Eastern District of Texas and a bump of almost 500 cases in the District of Delaware, Unified Patents projected ...read more

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to turn down a petition asking it to weigh in on the False Claims Act’s public disclosure bar shows the provision is effectively working as intended, despite claims of a split among circuit courts, ...read more